This car inspired by Death Race 2000 was built on the MTV show Fast Inc in an episode (8; “Death Race 2006”) where Mean Magazine wanted to do a shoot inspired by the movie. Instead of using a 70s Vette like in the movie, they decided to go with a second generation Aztec kit car on a VW chassis. The car is located in the Las Vegas area and you can write MLTJD@aol.com if you’re interested (watch for it on eBay soon as well). It needs new glass and a new motor and paperwork.
Death Race 2000 inspired MTV car
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I believe it was well over a year ago when this one first hit samba for sale, I wanted to junp on it, take the horns off the front the snorkle off the rear and rebuild it,
I think it would have been sweet on my mid engineering chassis,
i always loved the long nosed gull wing Aztecs
Besides looking a bit tacky right now if you look past that it’s in pretty good shape for one of these early cool cars,
There was , at the time no cheap way to get it from Cali to Fl. that and the actual owner would never contact me back,
Actually, it was an Aztec that was in the movie, not a Vette as commonly believed. The film was so low budget that the producers had to find the cheapest cars available – kit cars!
You learn something new everyday!
It was the ‘Manta’ looking car of Machine Gun Joe that had me confused. Anyone know what it was?
Here’s a link, no guarantees of the accuracy though…
http://www.imcdb.org/movie_72856-Death-Race-2000.html
Sorry, the Car in the film Death race 2000 called the “Monster” was a Shala vet by dick dean, being styled as a baby vette that is where the confusion comes in, it was powered by a corvair engine, Here are pictures
http://jayohrberg.com/resources/_wsb_508x321_Alligator+Car+from+Death+Race+2000.jpg
http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/thehistoryof/dick_dean_history/photo_18.html
Last I saw it someone had a blown engine on a 425 sticking out the back that ruins the cars movie history.
One shala body shell was on samba and another driver one just went thru fleabay,
I would love to have one,
Cheers,
P.
My name is Bud, I live in Las Vegas, NV and am the current owner of this car. I don’t have the garage space or time to restore this car so I am offering it up for sale. It still is missing the glass, motor, starter, and Title. Amazingly enough, it has a working ignition switch with 4 keys!!!.